ROTFLMAO!!!! That's like the Japanese saying that World War II consisted entirely of the nuking of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Both sides write myths, as I'm sure you will quickly demonstrate.
ROTFLMAO!!!! That's like the Japanese saying that World War II consisted entirely of the nuking of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Then I must have missed something in WWII. What American base on Japanese soil did the Japanese attack after asking us many times to leave?
There were four Declarations of the Causes of Secession and they all prominently cite slavery as their reason for rebelling.
The relevant legal declarations were called "Ordinances of Secession". Every state published one. Three mention slavery as a cause - South Carolina, Mississippi, and Texas. See Ordinances of Secession of the 13 Confederate States of America
So what you're saying is that Lincoln tricked the confederacy into war and that the Southern leadership was too stupid to see through his trap? Doesn't say much about them, does it?
Lincoln said this himself. But as to who wasn't very smart -- four more states seceded after Sumter so I don't think Lincoln was very smart either.
Actually it freed all those in the areas covered by the Proclamation. It just took a while before many could take advantage of their freedom.
And what did the proclamation do for the thousands of blacks captured behind Union lines and concentrated into Benjamin Butler's "contraband camps" - where they were starved, left to die of disease, charged with vagrancy and forced to perform free labor? The Emancipation Proclamation was merely a war measure designed to disrupt the Southern economy. I believe you had something to say about myths?
Do you honestly believe the nonsense you spout? It was an army fort, not a customs house.
No it wasn't a customs house. It was the control point for Charleston Harbor. It's guns covered every ship entering or leaving. Its main use during peacetime was as a threat to any ship attempting to avoid the port authorities.